Health, Law and Policy Career Forum

The Centre for Better Health and Regulation (CBHR) and Science and Technology Law Association (SATLA) are delighted to invite JD, MLM and MD students to join a Health, Law, and Policy Career Forum.

Careers in policy and regulation present an exciting, fulfilling, and impactful career path for graduates of the Juris Doctor, Melbourne Law Masters, and Doctor of Medicine. The Health, Law and Policy Career Forum will provide an excellent opportunity to explore the unique careers that may be pursued in this space.

You will hear from professionals with experience across industry, academia and government, both experienced and more recently graduated, and informally network over drinks and finger food with other students, in Law and Medicine, with interest in how the disciplines intersect.

Here are the wonderful speakers for the event:

Prof Rob Moodie is Professor of Public Health at the University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health (MSPGH), and Honorary Professor of Public Health at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Malawi. Prior to this he was the Director of Teaching and Learning at MSPGH, and before that was the inaugural Chair of Global Health at the Nossal Institute.

Prof Jodie McVernon is a Monash University Medical Graduate with subspecialty training in Paediatrics, Public Health and Vaccinology. She has extensive expertise in clinical vaccine trials, epidemiologic studies and mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, gained at the University of Oxford, Health Protection Agency London and University of Melbourne. She is Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, and heads the Modelling and Simulation Group within the Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health.

Dr Elizabeth Stout received her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics studying inherited blood disorders at UNSW Sydney. She then joined the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute as a postdoctoral research officer to investigate the regenerative potential of the human heart. In 2023 Elizabeth joined the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department as one of the Chief Scientist’s Science Policy Fellows, where she now works as an Assistant Director in policy development

Ms Casey Haining is an interdisciplinary researcher with qualifications in biomedicine, population health and law. Her research explores the regulation of sensitive areas of health such as sexual and reproductive health, and genetics. Casey graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Biomedicine, majoring in neuroscience. She went on to complete an Honours year with the University of Melbourne’s School of Population and Global Health where she was trained in qualitative methodology. Her thesis explored conscientious objection, particularly in the context of voluntary assisted dying. Casey has completed postgraduate studies in law, graduating with a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Melbourne.

Dr Naomi Holbeach is a clinician, clinical educator, and researcher in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She is the Academic Coordinator for teaching and learning in the Department of O&G. Having been awarded dual qualifications in medicine and law, Naomi is completing her PhD across the disciplines of medicine, law, and ethics. Her areas of interest in addition to obstetrics and gynaecology are surgical innovation, professional and research ethics, clinical education and training, and health law.